| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: nothing for the physician to do but to declare that the unfortunate
man had been dead for many hours. The bullet which struck him in
the back had killed him at once. The commissioner examined the
ground immediately around the corpse, but could find nothing that
pointed to a struggle. There remained only to prove whether there
had been a robbery as well as a murder.
"Judging from the man's position the bullet must have come from
that direction," said the commissioner, pointing towards the
cottages down the lane.
"People who are killed by bullets may turn several times before
they fall," said a gentle voice behind the police officer. The
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mansion by Henry van Dyke: finding himself
in thought. Then he took a narrow book from the table drawer,
wrote a check, and tore it out.
He went slowly up the stairs, knocked very softly at his son's
door,
and, hearing no answer, entered without noise. Harold was
asleep,
his bare arm thrown above his head, and his eager face relaxed in
peace.
His father looked at him a moment with strangely shining eyes,
and then tiptoed quietly to the writing-desk, found a pencil and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: with the produce of the farm belonging to his convent. Then they
visited the tower of Chia, but could not get in because the door is
thirty feet off the ground; so they came back and pitched a
magnificent tent which I brought from the BAHIANA a long time ago -
and where they will live (if I mistake not) in preference to the
friar's, or the owl- and bat-haunted tower. MM. T- and S- will be
left there: T-, an intelligent, hard-working Frenchman, with whom
I am well pleased; he can speak English and Italian well, and has
been two years at Genoa. S- is a French German with a face like an
ancient Gaul, who has been sergeant-major in the French line and
who is, I see, a great, big, muscular FAINEANT. We left the tent
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